Ebook {Epub PDF} Flashman in the Great Game by George MacDonald Fraser

The villain of the book is a boy called Flashman, a bully, drunkard, and general asshole. Naturally, years later George MacDonald Fraser decided to write a series of historical novels starring a grown up Flashman as the “hero.”. The result, at least in Fraser’s original book, was pure magic. George MacDonald Fraser () based the idea of Flashman on the original character created by Thomas Hughes in Tom Brown’s School Days, published in The Flashman character was a fictionalized look at the 19th century British Army, but Fraser was always praised for his historical accuracy in portraying real world events. One of my favorite of the Flashman series, Flashman and the Great Game has it all; adventure, danger, sex, and terrific ending. This book brings alive one of the high points in the British Empire. A politically in-correct yarn for a world now awash in political www.doorway.rus:

George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman in the Great Game is the fifth installment in the long-running series about Victorian coward-turned-hero Harry Flashman, always bumbling through the British Empire's wars and intrigues to greater glory. This installment focuses on the Indian Mutiny, a subject so portentous and horrifying in its details that. Buy Flashman in the Great Game by George MacDonald Fraser from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £ The background conflict is the Great Game between Russia and Great Britain. The historical facts and personalities involved appear well-researched. To add a note of authenticity, Frazer has footnotes when there may be a discrepancy in facts as related by Flashman and actual historical facts.

Flashman, Flash for Freedom!, Flashman in the Great Game (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) Hardcover – Deckle Edge, February 2, by George MacDonald Fraser (Author). One of my favorite of the Flashman series, Flashman and the Great Game has it all; adventure, danger, sex, and terrific ending. This book brings alive one of the high points in the British Empire. A politically in-correct yarn for a world now awash in political correctness. Flashman in the Great Game covers the years to It also contains a number of notes by Fraser, in the guise of editor, giving additional historical information on the events described. Plot summary. Flashman not only encounters Lord Palmerston at Balmoral, but also his old nemesis Nicholas Pavlovich Ignatiev.